MavenNet
A .NET Client for inspecting and interacting with Maven Repositories
Huh? What? Why?
Some Android/Java libraries use a system kind of like NuGet, called Maven. Most .NET developers would not, could not, should not care about this.
I had a particular need to be able to work with information and artifacts in Maven repositories to track dependency changes and updates. Being a .NET developer, I decided it would be useful to have a .NET API for this.
Usage
You can open a repository from a url or a directory path:
// Open by URL
var repo = MavenRepository.OpenUrl ("https://mavenrepohost.com/somerepo");
// Open by Directory
var repo = MavenRepository.OpenDirectory ("/path/to/somerepo");
After you open a repository, you will want to load the metadata to be able to access a list of package information:
await repo.LoadMetadataAsync ();
Once you've loaded metadata, you can access it via the metadata property:
foreach (var item in repo.Metadata) {
Console.WriteLine ($"{item.GroupId} - {item.ArtifactId}");
foreach (var version in item.AllVersions) {
Console.WriteLine ($"\t{version}");
}
}
You can access the Project Object Model (.pom XML file details) as well:
var project = await repo.GetProjectAsync ("com.some.package", "artifact-id", "1.2.3");
foreach (var dep in project.Dependencies) {
Console.WriteLine ($"{dep} - {dep.ArtifactId} - {dep.Version}");
}